Structural changes in mature Venture Capital industry: Evidence from Israel

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-

  Avnimelech, Gil ^a   Schwartz, Dafna ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Industry life cycle; Innovation; Maturity; Regional cluster; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951719030     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.453.11.1.60     Document Type: Article

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